1st Edition
Mid-Victorian Imperialists British Gentlemen and the Empire of the Mind
By Edward Beasley
Copyright 2005
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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Throughout the nineteenth century the British Empire was the subject of much writing; floods of articles, books and government reports were produced about the areas under British control and the policy of imperialism. Mid-Victorian Imperialists investigates how the Victorians made sense of all the information regarding the empire by examining the writings of a collection of gentlemen who were... Read more
Table Of Contents Acknowledgments iv Abbreviations v Preface by Peter Catterall I Introduction II Arthur Mills, Almanacs, and Despotism. III The Man who ran the Empire. IV Frederic Rogers and the ‘Transcendental Expectation’ V Letters from Australia, Pt 1: The Citizens VI Letters from Australia, Pt 2: The Governor and the End of the World VII The Variety of Englishmen and their Empires, Part 1: Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton VIII The Variety of Englishmen and their Empires, Part 2. IX Generalizing about Humanity: Lord Carnarvon. X Rawlinson, Northcote, and the Imperialism of Information Management. XI Conclusion Bibliography
Biography
Edward Beasley is a Lecturer in History at San Diego State University, where he also teaches in the Liberal Studies Program. He is the author of Empire as the Triumph of Theory: Imperialism, Information and the Colonial Society of 1868 (Routledge 2004).
